A Blog Update - and a Photographic trip to Elmley Nature Reserve
Over the last few years, I have been very lapse with my blog posts. In fact, the last one I did was in 2022, just after OM Systems launched the OM1.
The reason I started blogging was to show some of my images, and talk about locations that I have visited. About three years ago,I started making YouTube videos, and they tended to take over from my blog posts. Consequently, my `blog posts` tended to be ignored.
Producing a YouTube video takes a lot of time, planning and effort. Often, I have been to a location intended to make a video, only to find that although I had some nice `stills`, I did not have enough `material or footage` to make a decent YouTube video.
So to show images when I have been somewhere, and not had enough material for a YouTube video, I intend to start blogging again. This is not to say that I intend to stop making YouTube videos, its more a case of using the blog to occassionally show pictures taken at different locations.
Photographic trip to Elmley Nature Reserve
Consequently, these shots are from a recent trip with a camera club friend to Elmley Nature Reserve on the Isle of Sheppy. This trip wasn`t intended for a YouTube video, (I dont like `talking to camera` when I am with someone, or if there are other people around ) So the trip was solely for taking `stills` for my camera club or social media.
All the images are taken using the OM1mkII, 150-400mm lens, often with the 1.25 extender. Most shots are taken from the car, resting the lens on a bean bag, although the following Barn Owl images were taken after we had parked up in the reserve car park, and walked down to the old ruined schoolhouse. On the way to the schoolhouse, we were treated to a fine display from this Barn Owl . All the the Barn Owl shots are taken hand held.
Barn Owl
